Issue 2, 2018

Anisotropic thermal conductive properties of cigarette filter-templated graphene/epoxy composites

Abstract

Herein, a cigarette filter-templated graphene/epoxy composite was prepared with enhanced thermal conductive properties. The through-plane thermal conductivity of the epoxy composite was up to 1.2 W mK−1, which was 4 times that of it in the in-plane (0.298 W mK−1) after only 5 filtration cycles. The thermal conductive anisotropy and improvement in the through-plane thermal conductivity of the epoxy composite were attributed to the particular structure of cigarette filter-templated graphene in the epoxy matrix. The unique structure formed effective conductive pathways in the composite to improve the thermal transportation properties. The excellent thermal transportation properties allow the epoxy composite to be used as an efficient heat dissipation material for thermal management applications.

Graphical abstract: Anisotropic thermal conductive properties of cigarette filter-templated graphene/epoxy composites

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 Oct 2017
Accepted
13 Dec 2017
First published
03 Jan 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 1065-1070

Anisotropic thermal conductive properties of cigarette filter-templated graphene/epoxy composites

Z. Liu, Y. Chen, W. Dai, Y. Wu, M. Wang, X. Hou, H. Li, N. Jiang, C. Lin and J. Yu, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 1065 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA11574A

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